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Lila J. Finney Rutten, Ph.D. Associate Professor Division of EpidemiologyMayo ClinicRochester, MN
Background Usual source of healthcare • Greater use of preventive services; • Decreased use of emergency services; • Higher ratings of quality and satisfaction
• Ongoing patient-provider relationships may, in part, befostered by patient-centered communication.
Patient-centered communication • Adherence to treatment recommendations; • Management of chronic disease; • Quality of life; • Disease-related outcomes.
Purpose Evaluate the interrelationships between having a usual source of care, patient-centeredcommunication, and patients’ratings of health care quality.
Hypothesis: the association between usual source of care and ratings ofhealthcare quality would be mediated by patient-centered communication.
• “Not including psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, is there a particular doctor, nurse, or otherhealth professional that you see most often?” (yes/no)
• “In the past 12 months, not counting the times you wentto the emergency room, how many times did you go to a doctor, nurse, or other health professional to get care foryourself?”
• “Overall, how would you rate the quality of healthcare you received in the last 12 months?”.
• “Give you the chance to ask all the health-related questions you had”
• “Explain things in a way you could understand“ Exchanging Information
Responding to Emotions
• “Give the attention you needed to your feelings and emotions?”
• “Involve you in decisions about your healthcare as much as you wanted?”;
• “Make sure you understood the things you needed to do to take care of your health?”
Making Decisions
Enabling PatientSelf-Management
Managing Uncertainty
Foster healing relationships
• “Help you deal with feelings of uncertainty about yourhealth or healthcare?”.
•“During the past 12 months, how often did you feel you could rely on your doctors, nurses, or other healthcare professionals to take care of your healthcare needs?” •“Spend enough time with you?”
Usual source of care observed more frequently among: • Females • Older adults • Non-Hispanic whites • Those with higher education • Those with health insurance
Those with a usual source of care had significantly: • Those with higher incomes
• More visits to healthcare providers during the past year; • Higher ratings of healthcare quality; • More patient-centered communication.
* Sobel test statistic: 4.82, p<.0001. Regression analyses control for gender, age, education, income, race/ethnicity, health insurance status, and frequency of healthcare use.
Patient Centered Communication
β=.66, SE=.02, p<.0001
n=3051
b. β=.14, SE=.05, p<.05 (n=3022) Controls for patient centered communication.
Conclusions This nationally representative study lends support to
putting a usual source of healthcare and patient-centered communication in the center of the patient-centered medical home. With high rates of chronic disease and associated
complex care regimens in the U.S., patient-centered communication may be more important than ever. Fostering healing, trusting, and effective patient-
provider relationships takes significant effort on the partof patients and their medical team. Research to investigate how to promote patient-
centered communication and that evaluates its impactwill play an increasingly important role in our efforts to reduce chronic disease and improve population health.